League of Legends Game Nights/Season 2 League

I try to be map aware, but I am not super great with it in normal game play so you can't expect me to be a master in spectating XD. I think one issue is that sometimes it looks like something could happen in all three lanes at the same time and we have to make a call, or if the other spectator is talking I dont want to jar the watchers by jumping around the map. I try to interject if someone is about to die. As for watching static lanes, I guess I need to be careful of that. I know sometimes if one of the two or low or if a gank is in the wings I might stay in one area too long, but other times I am just looking at other parts of my screen. For instance if I am comparing CS I will leave the camera just hovering over a lane without a care to what is going on in said lane.

Wait a minute, are you telling me he focuses on mid during the game when I get my ass handed to me, after ignoring mid in the game when I run a good Cass? CONSPIRACY!

I believe Complex has made clear the difference between Squee at the beginning of the night and Squee at the end of the night.

On a side note, this pleases me greatly.

Keep the constructive criticism of the commentary going. With players commentating on the commentators commentations of their playing it won't be long until we're all pros!

Squee9 wrote:

I believe Complex has made clear the difference between Squee at the beginning of the night and Squee at the end of the night.

On a side note, this pleases me greatly.

Keep the constructive criticism of the commentary going. With players commentating on the commentators commentations of their playing it won't be long until we're all pros!

I have? I thought you were crazy at all times and prone to soloing fedora at every chance you got, while singing.

I'm going to attempt to stream some games for community night tomorrow. I'll probably stick to streaming while casting because there's noticeable lag when I play (hooray for terrible upload speeds), but we'll see how it goes. If anyone would like to help me out and test my settings and such, I'll probably try and do some trial runs shortly before 8pm EST.

http://www.own3d.tv/live/275578/Koz

I have thought about streaming but I don't know if streaming and recording at the same time will cause lag.

Complex wrote:

I have thought about streaming but I don't know if streaming and recording at the same time will cause lag.

You can record directly through the streaming program Xsplit and most other streaming programs.

I see it is in beta but it also costs money. I don't know if I want to pay for a beta. I thought you used fraps?

Complex wrote:

I see it is in beta but it also costs money. I don't know if I want to pay for a beta. I thought you used fraps?

Only the fancy version costs money, I believe.
I use fraps, I'm just saying that if you are going to do a stream, you can record through that instead of having to run both it and fraps.

I might give it a try tonight after DnD. Assuming you guys are still online when I get home.

XSplit is actually about to go out of beta next week, so it will soon always cost money. Bleh.

I have fraps as well, but I thought it might be fun for people to be able to watch that aren't in the game.

There are other steaming options such as Flash Media Encoder. I'm pretty sure that works with Own3d.

Edit: just tested it, check out this guide: http://www.quantic-destiny.com/newbi...

I heard the major limitation with that is you can't record audio and microphone at the same time.

Game night, on MY Tuesday?
It's more likely than you think.

Ok, I have a stream up, will try to get this going in full for friday, i need to go to bed now so I wont do a game tonight:
http://www.own3d.tv/live/276599/The_...

Games from tonight:

http://www.own3d.tv/video/557338/Koz...
http://www.own3d.tv/video/557401/Koz...

Sorry for the crappy resolution, my upload speed is abysmal. I think I might be able to jack it up a bit for casting because the lag isn't as big of a deal.

Oh man damn that fight around dragon, you missed the hilarious top lane 2v2 fight. Harry's mouse went out while chasing jax so he just stands under the tower when we dive. Then Jax walks toward Harry and he uses his foxfire to kill him then he dies to tower. The whole time Shaco is just chasing me around killing me.

good guy Fedora gave up his seat so I could play, even though I was late because I was in a Dominion. Thanks Fedora!

btw, after the last custom, we queued up in a premade: me, carrot, strewth, merphle, and pivotwizard. Insane game. Went 70+ minutes and ended with us winning on a miracle.

They had baron and pushed, but got out of position. We got a 4 for 1, but had to leave someone at our base to stop minions from taking our nexus. So carrot, me, and merphle (trundle, riven, and soraka, respectively) had about 30 seconds to kill their 5th (Graves) and take out their final 2 towers/nexus because it took us time to get all 4 dead and push the wave.

we dive graves and 100-0 him really quick and proceed to kill the towers. all of us are fairly low health from tower hits and we're smacking the nexus as they spawn. nexus is at 25% health or so.

trundle dies, then I die but I have a guardians proc ready. i had like 400 ad, so they have no choice but to wait for me to respawn lest I kill the nexus with a few AAs. this leaves soraka to throw bananas at it. they kill me almost immediately, allowing me only one hit. i get it down to 2% health or so and die. soraka has hardly any health left and they turn on her. just before their barrage of AAs and abilities hit her, one last banana comes out and the nexus goes down. props to Merphle for a clutch banana.

we would have lost easily as they had 4 up and we only had 1 (maybe 2 if Strewth spawned in time), and had barely 2 towers with super minions all around. banana saved the day.

http://www.own3d.tv/video/557401/Koz...

That 2nd game draft picks

We spent the duration of the first 2 bans trying to get in the right vent channels and realizing that our lower level players were the captains. The Cass was the only intentional ban either team got, iirc, and the Yi was a time-out random pick too. Pretty funny to hear you two trying to figure out the madness

_Free_ wrote:

Insane game.

You got that right. We were down in kills for the entire game -- down by over a dozen at the end, if I recall correctly. They could've won the game easily once or twice, but they opted to go for Baron instead. There were a bunch of epic jungle battles in that game too.

And for a pub match, it was surprisingly free of asshattery.

lol. Now, that I am sorry I missed =)

Dyni wrote:

http://www.own3d.tv/video/557401/Koz...

That 2nd game draft picks

We spent the duration of the first 2 bans trying to get in the right vent channels and realizing that our lower level players were the captains. The Cass was the only intentional ban either team got, iirc, and the Yi was a time-out random pick too. Pretty funny to hear you two trying to figure out the madness :)

Oh my god the madness! I have never seen that part of a custom game before! (How new is that?) I've been playing on and off for about two years now and was completely lost with the way that worked out. Sorry! All I wanted to do was CHOOSE Kennen and instead I ended up banning him and that screwed everything up. Plus I had no idea I was captain so I couldn't unban in time.

Then I had no we had to take turns choosing a hero so I was taking my time. Everyone was yelling "Temp pick something! Pick Ryze! You have Ryze right?" "Yeah I have Ryze" I said.

Turns out....I didn't so I just clicked randomly in panic and Yi was picked. This resulting in Latrine and I trading heroes.

It was just a whirlwind of hilarious fail. My apologies

FedoraMcQuaid wrote:

Oh man damn that fight around dragon, you missed the hilarious top lane 2v2 fight. Harry's mouse went out while chasing jax so he just stands under the tower when we dive. Then Jax walks toward Harry and he uses his foxfire to kill him then he dies to tower. The whole time Shaco is just chasing me around killing me.

What's weird is it's a wired USB Razer mouse, and for some reason, twice in the last 2 weeks it has done this where I have to unplug and replug it in, and had never done that before. Ahri is literally the only AP 'carry' (because she's not really a carry) I play well consistantly.

Props to the alistar that finally landed a punt in the right direction, right onto Cait's trap, instead of saving low HP champs :p

TempestBlayze wrote:
Dyni wrote:

http://www.own3d.tv/video/557401/Koz...

That 2nd game draft picks

We spent the duration of the first 2 bans trying to get in the right vent channels and realizing that our lower level players were the captains. The Cass was the only intentional ban either team got, iirc, and the Yi was a time-out random pick too. Pretty funny to hear you two trying to figure out the madness :)

Oh my god the madness! I have never seen that part of a custom game before! (How new is that?) I've been playing on and off for about two years now and was completely lost with the way that worked out. Sorry! All I wanted to do was CHOOSE Kennen and instead I ended up banning him and that screwed everything up. Plus I had no idea I was captain so I couldn't unban in time.

Then I had no we had to take turns choosing a hero so I was taking my time. Everyone was yelling "Temp pick something! Pick Ryze! You have Ryze right?" "Yeah I have Ryze" I said.

Turns out....I didn't so I just clicked randomly in panic and Yi was picked. This resulting in Latrine and I trading heroes.

It was just a whirlwind of hilarious fail. My apologies :)

I wanted to pick kennen, not ban him! I SWEAR I HAVE RYZE!

Must have taken a while for the champ to show up after purchase haahaha

Hopefully this was all caught in the video?

edit: it was, it was. Too funny.

i just loved the Olaf ban. he's the only counter to Poppy. once I saw him off the table, it was an easy choice.

Jow wrote:

Hopefully this was all caught in the video?

edit: it was, it was. Too funny.

...Sigh lol. If only I was able to choose Kennen. I will redeem myself next time.

_Free_ wrote:

i just loved the Olaf ban. he's the only counter to Poppy. once I saw him off the table, it was an easy choice.

Yes, my team was screaming to ban Olaf. Then the Poppy pick. Them: Who counters Poppy? Me: Olaf.

carrotpanic wrote:
_Free_ wrote:

i just loved the Olaf ban. he's the only counter to Poppy. once I saw him off the table, it was an easy choice.

Yes, my team was screaming to ban Olaf. Then the Poppy pick. Them: Who counters Poppy? Me: Olaf.

this is why I learned Olaf. Poppy counters high-health/high-regen champs (these are counters to Olaf) and does alright against everyone else.

Olaf counters Poppy and a sh*tload of other champs (he's a bit OP right now in the laning phase).

im set no matter what. Kennen is always annoying though, but hey that's Kennen.